justice is served
First it has been asked which urinal woman I ended up in front of while I did my business. Well, the answer is the one who was asking for a light. I explained to the young lady that I had not had a cigarette since December 19th, 1998, and besides, Gary pocketed my lighter. Sorry, I've got to pee and I got no flame. Not sure why I chose that one exactly but I guess its better than the broad with the binoculars.
Today Hemingway and I didn't brave the morning snow storm and she got some much needed rest wile I worked on things. It was crazy though at one point there was a huge bolt of lightning that lit up the room and crashed really loud. I have never experienced lightning in a stow storm before. That was very strange.
After her rest and the snow seemed to die down, we took the tram down to an old section of town and I had one of the biggest meals of my life. It was a sampler of Czech food and pretty much had the first five menu items from the Czech section, along with cabbage, dumplings, gnochi and bread. I ate it all and good lord I was full. One of the items was 1/4 duck, which was fabulous.
Hemingway for some reason isn't eating all that much and she just had a big bowl of potato soup in a hearty bread bowl. However, she is drinking a lot and had water, OJ and hot chocolate. Funny thing was, when we got the bill, her small bottled still water was twice as much as my large Czech beer. That's the way these Czech's roll. Water is twice as much as beer. My solution of course is to drink more beer.
We made it back to Sue's flat due to Hemingway's expert map navigation and Sue showed up from work about 15 minutes later. She told us about a great vegitarian place and said we could try it out. We were very open to the idea but I knew I wouldn't be eating all that much since I just had the huge plate only a few hours ago. But hey, no skin off my back. I would go to the restaurant with the girls and have drinks. I also knew I could eat off Hemingway's plate too later on. Sue makes reservations for 8:30 and we head out the door with plenty of time to make it to the restaurant.
I need to now mention that at Sue's recommendation we purchased a three day Prague transportation pass from the airport right after we got our bags. With this pass you can use the trams, metro (subway) or buses an unlimited amount of times for three days after you first use it. Now we did use the trams and the metro a ton of times and it costs a little over a dollar every time you need a ticket if you don't have a pass. Our passes were about 24 dollars a piece and I'm not sure we got our total money's worth, but it was nice to not have to scramble to find money and a ticket machine all the time for transport. That being said we used the excellent public transportation quite a bit and I feel that the passes for us were worth our time. Especially when I tell you this part...
We were on our way to the restaurant and head down with Sue to take the metro. We're standing on the platform where the trains pick you up and a guy asks me for our tickets. Hemingway has both of our tickets and unfortunately Sue had no ticket. There really isn't a monitoring system for people to pay except the very occasional dude walking around asking random people for a ticket. 99 times out of 100 you aren't going to get caught. Well when the guy asks me for our tickets I stop Hemingway so she can show the metro dude. Sue keeps walking, tries to act like she didn't hear the guy or whatever and attempts to disappear into the crowd. Train dude looks at our tickets and high tails it after Sue. He stops her and they are talking and Hemingway and I have no idea what to do, but we see them get on the train. So we jump on the train too and I barely make it, Hemingway is in a different car in front me and I can see her and Sue talking to the train guy still. We head up to the next stop and he takes her off the train and we follow at a distance. He drags her to an ATM and makes her withdraw money, and charges her 700 crowns for the violation. That's about 45 dollars. Yikes. This also made us late for the reservations and I was teasing Sue about being in the "700 club". She got caught and had to pay the big bucks. Doh! I seriously wondered how or if they ever monitored the system cause I never before this saw anyone checking ever., not this time or our last experience in Prague. Moral of the story. Pay the dollar, don't forget.... or you too may join the "700 club."
We finally made it to the restaurant, they had great food, but probably the worst service I have experienced in a long damn time. Tomorrow morning we say goodbye to Sue and head out to Jamie's castle. We've very much enjoyed our stay in Prague and we're already talking about figuring out how to come back.
This picture is us on the metro on the way home and yes, Sue bought a ticket this time and of course we were not asked by anyone to see it.
Today Hemingway and I didn't brave the morning snow storm and she got some much needed rest wile I worked on things. It was crazy though at one point there was a huge bolt of lightning that lit up the room and crashed really loud. I have never experienced lightning in a stow storm before. That was very strange.
After her rest and the snow seemed to die down, we took the tram down to an old section of town and I had one of the biggest meals of my life. It was a sampler of Czech food and pretty much had the first five menu items from the Czech section, along with cabbage, dumplings, gnochi and bread. I ate it all and good lord I was full. One of the items was 1/4 duck, which was fabulous.
Hemingway for some reason isn't eating all that much and she just had a big bowl of potato soup in a hearty bread bowl. However, she is drinking a lot and had water, OJ and hot chocolate. Funny thing was, when we got the bill, her small bottled still water was twice as much as my large Czech beer. That's the way these Czech's roll. Water is twice as much as beer. My solution of course is to drink more beer.
We made it back to Sue's flat due to Hemingway's expert map navigation and Sue showed up from work about 15 minutes later. She told us about a great vegitarian place and said we could try it out. We were very open to the idea but I knew I wouldn't be eating all that much since I just had the huge plate only a few hours ago. But hey, no skin off my back. I would go to the restaurant with the girls and have drinks. I also knew I could eat off Hemingway's plate too later on. Sue makes reservations for 8:30 and we head out the door with plenty of time to make it to the restaurant.
I need to now mention that at Sue's recommendation we purchased a three day Prague transportation pass from the airport right after we got our bags. With this pass you can use the trams, metro (subway) or buses an unlimited amount of times for three days after you first use it. Now we did use the trams and the metro a ton of times and it costs a little over a dollar every time you need a ticket if you don't have a pass. Our passes were about 24 dollars a piece and I'm not sure we got our total money's worth, but it was nice to not have to scramble to find money and a ticket machine all the time for transport. That being said we used the excellent public transportation quite a bit and I feel that the passes for us were worth our time. Especially when I tell you this part...
We were on our way to the restaurant and head down with Sue to take the metro. We're standing on the platform where the trains pick you up and a guy asks me for our tickets. Hemingway has both of our tickets and unfortunately Sue had no ticket. There really isn't a monitoring system for people to pay except the very occasional dude walking around asking random people for a ticket. 99 times out of 100 you aren't going to get caught. Well when the guy asks me for our tickets I stop Hemingway so she can show the metro dude. Sue keeps walking, tries to act like she didn't hear the guy or whatever and attempts to disappear into the crowd. Train dude looks at our tickets and high tails it after Sue. He stops her and they are talking and Hemingway and I have no idea what to do, but we see them get on the train. So we jump on the train too and I barely make it, Hemingway is in a different car in front me and I can see her and Sue talking to the train guy still. We head up to the next stop and he takes her off the train and we follow at a distance. He drags her to an ATM and makes her withdraw money, and charges her 700 crowns for the violation. That's about 45 dollars. Yikes. This also made us late for the reservations and I was teasing Sue about being in the "700 club". She got caught and had to pay the big bucks. Doh! I seriously wondered how or if they ever monitored the system cause I never before this saw anyone checking ever., not this time or our last experience in Prague. Moral of the story. Pay the dollar, don't forget.... or you too may join the "700 club."
We finally made it to the restaurant, they had great food, but probably the worst service I have experienced in a long damn time. Tomorrow morning we say goodbye to Sue and head out to Jamie's castle. We've very much enjoyed our stay in Prague and we're already talking about figuring out how to come back.
This picture is us on the metro on the way home and yes, Sue bought a ticket this time and of course we were not asked by anyone to see it.
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